DEWALS Benjamin G.
Chargé de cours
Maître de recherches FNRS & Fonds assoc.
Immunologie vétérinaire
Faculté de Médecine vétérinaire
Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires (DMI)
Parasitologie vétérinaire et maladies parasitaires animales
FARAH: Santé publique vétérinaire
- ULiège address
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Bât. B43BIS Immunologie vétérinaire
Quartier Vallée 2
avenue de Cureghem 10
4000 Liège 1
Belgique
- ULiège phone number
- +32 4 3664269
- ULiège Fax
- +32 4 3664261
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- Conseil sectoriel à la recherche et à la valorisation
- Sciences de la Santé
- Personal website (s)
- Site internet
Biography
Graduated as Doctor in Veterinary Medicine in 2002, Benjamin Dewals directly embarked on an FNRS career as a Research Fellow in the Immunology-Vaccinology laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at ULiege. At the end of his doctoral thesis, in 2006 he obtained a position as FNRS Postdoctoral Research Fellow and carried out a two-year post-doctoral stay at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 2012, he obtained a mandate as an FNRS Research Associate and founded his research group in the Immunology-Vaccinology laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at ULiege. Benjamin Dewals was promoted Senior Research Associate of the FNRS and recently obtained a position as Lecturerfrom the ULiège in 2023. He is teaching animal parasitic diseases in animals and his research group mainly focuses on the consequences of virus/parasite co-infections on health, and aims to better understand how helminth parasites affect the immune system in the long term.
Duties or mandates
- Associate Professor[BR]Senior Research Associate F.R.S.-FNRS
Scientific distinctions
- Prize of the Centre d'études Princesse Joséphine-Charlotte for scientific research on viral infections (2019)
- Prix Hamoir 2013-2017 (2018)
- BAEF Alumni award in Biomedical Sciences (2014)
ULiège Course
Cytométrie en flux et Imagerie in vivo, 8h Th, 8h Pr, DEWALS Benjamin G., GILLET Laurent, MACHIELS Bénédicte, VANDERPLASSCHEN Alain
Maladies infectieuses et parasitaires (MIP) des équidés, y compris les zoonoses, 16h Th, 3h TPPC, DEWALS Benjamin G., GILLET Laurent, LINDEN Annick
Maladies infectieuses et parasitaires (MIP) des animaux de production et de la faune sauvage, y compris les zoonoses, 58h Th, 6h TPPC, DEWALS Benjamin G., GILLET Laurent, LINDEN Annick, THIRY Damien
Raisonnement par cas, 4 sem.
- Biologie clinique, 17,5h PCL, PEETERS Dominique
- Imagerie médicale, 17,5h Clin., BOLEN Géraldine, BUSONI Valeria, ETIENNE Anne-Laure
- Infectiologie et parasitologie vétérinaires, 35h PCL, DEWALS Benjamin G., GILLET Laurent, LINDEN Annick, MACHIELS Bénédicte, MIGNON Bernard, SAEGERMAN Claude, THIRY Damien, VANDERPLASSCHEN Alain
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